Data Issues & Policy Discussions
This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.
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Add images (and all other) new contribution types to the contribution history page
Although I get an email confirming my image contribution (example: IMDb update receipt #180422-161133-961102), and it has a link to view its status, I'd really like to see that contribution on the page https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/history/ Any chance that's on the IMDb To Do list?
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"reference-to-" keywords
I'd like to see all the "reference-to-" keywords changed. Consider this:- Add a new category called Referenced - Remove reference-to- from any keywords that begin this way - Categorize said keywords as ReferencedExample:Reference-to-Cary-Grant would become Cary-Grant in the keyword category, Referen
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Idea: Add mental health/trigger warning to parents guide
Hi IMDB, would you be able to add a mental illness warning/trigger warning section to the parents guide? It could use the same severity ratings as the violence, sex and drugs categories, but it would focus on potential triggers for people. For example, I have recently become aware that people with e
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Suggestion to bring back the this number of reviews have been deleted function
Hi, Before IMDb changed its format around 2017, reviewers were able to see at the top of our review page how many reviews of ours had been deleted, either by us or removed through reporting. We were also able to see which reviews had been deleted/removed. Something that was incredibly helpful. From
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Tracking exact counts of your submissions.
Hi all. As suggested by Michelle and Ozzy, I now come to you all with this topic. I've had several questions regarding the Badges, the substages (chapters, whatever you call it --> after 100,250,500,750,1000, etc.) and, lately, just exactly how many new names I have added. I like to be able to
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Restoring the "literature" section for title pages
For some years IMDb had a Literature section for title pages. This was intended to include information about such items as: books that films were based on novelizations of films books about the making of a particular film printed reviews that were not available online and could not be link
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archive producers and archive researcher credits
Can Archive Producers and Archive Researchers be given recognition in the main area rather than having to put the credit under additional crew?
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Puppeteer status
Hello! We are officers and members of the SAG-AFTRA National Puppeteers Committee. Currently, credits for puppeteers in IMDB are listed in the Additional Crew section of our respective Filmographies. The only time a puppeteer is listed as an Actor is when the puppeteer performs the voice of the char
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Trivia Subsections
The Trivia listings on popular movies usually fill up. Like the Goofs listings, could there be sections introduced to Trivia such as "Industry Notes", "Items which refer to actors only, not the movie", "Coincidences", and "Failed Auditions", etc., so that we can skip those items?
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Allow other works to be re-ordered
Hi."Other Works" section is a pretty good place to add commercials, radio, theater, books, music videos (edit: does not belong to ”Other Works”), audio recordings (edit: podcasts does not belong to ”Other Works”), etc - BUT it still doesn't support year order. Based on the older thread about two yea
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